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Oberon

Moon · Moon of Uranus

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Oberon
Picture: Kevin M. Gill, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

About Oberon

On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Oberon was 19.5 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 2.7 hours to reach it.

It goes round its planet once every 13.47 days, 583,607 km away on average.

It is about 1,523 km across.

The map lists it as a moon and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).

Key numbers

Orbit radius (semi-major axis)583,607 km
Orbital period13.47 days
Eccentricity0.0021
Inclination97.91°
Radius761.4 km
Distance from the Sun19.5 AU

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Uranus › Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Neptune and the Kuiper belt, a view about 110 AU across.

From Wikipedia

Oberon is the outermost and second-largest major moon of the planet Uranus. It is the second-most massive of the Uranian moons, and the tenth-largest moon in the Solar System.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Oberon (moon), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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